The Secret Garden, complete online version

First edition illustrated Children's Book By Frances Hodgson Burnett

an' sniffin' up th' air an' get him just soaked through wi' sunshine. An' we munnot lose no time about it."

When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand. But she loved his broad York­shire and had in fact been trying to learn to speak it herself. So she spoke a little now.

" Aye, that we mun," she said (which meant "Yes, indeed, we must"). " I'll tell thee what us'll do first," she proceeded, and Dickon grinned, because when the little wench tried to twist her tongue into speaking Yorkshire it amused him very much. " He's took a graidely fancy to thee. He wants to see thee and he wants to see Soot an' Cap­tain. When I go back to the house to talk to him I'll ax him if tha' canna' come an' see him to­morrow mornin' — an' bring tha' creatures wi' thee — an' then — in a bit, when there's more leaves out, an' happen a bud or two, we'll get him to come out an' tha' shall push him in his chair an' we'll bring him here an' show him everything."

When she stopped she was quite proud of her­self. She had never made a long speech in York­shire before and she had remembered very well.